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2 Falus - Moulay 'Abd al-Rahman 3rd Standard, Tetuan
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1855-1859 |
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| Weight | 7.06 g |
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| Reverse description | Plain, worn field bearing the mint name and AH date in Arabic script, appearing in two lines at center. The legends are weakly struck as is characteristic of cast coinage of the Sharifian mints, with the inscription identifying the Tetuan mint and the regnal year. The surface shows considerable roughness and porosity consistent with the casting technique employed at the Tetuan mint under Sultan Moulay Abd al-Rahman. |
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| Reverse lettering | تطوان 1271 (Translation: Tetuan 1271) |
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Moulay 'Abd al-Rahman ruled Morocco from 1822 until his death in 1859, presiding over a sultanate increasingly pressed by European commercial interests and, after 1844, the humiliation of Isly — a defeat by French forces that exposed the limits of Moroccan military capacity. The Tetuan mint was one of several provincial facilities producing falus coinage during this period, and output consistency between mints was never a priority. Weights and module vary enough across surviving examples that the C#126b subdivision itself reflects documented die and fabric differences rather than a clean typological split.